Lifelong Calverton resident Jason Perez, a 2000 Riverhead High School graduate who started his own landscaping company while still a college student in 2002, has turned his focus to convincing property owners that organic lawn care can give them the lush green lawn they crave — and it will even produce a healthier, more resilient turf.

FBI radio operators impersonating German agents used the Wading River Radio Station to communicate with the German intelligence service. Information covertly gathered there was critical to inspiring the United States’ development of an atomic bomb. The station was also involved in Operation “Bodyguard,” which used counterintelligence to confuse and mislead the Nazi government about the upcoming Allied invasion of Europe.

An online fundraiser has been started to help support the wife and two children left behind by Dashan Briggs, an Air National Guard staff sergeant who was serving in Iraq when he died in a helicopter crash Thursday.

As the auditorium filled with jubilant chants of “Pie! Pie! Pie!” Roanoke Avenue Elementary School principal Thomas Payton took his seat center stage to take his lumps for "losing" his annual Reading Week challenge.

Riverhead’s main commercial corridor will soon have another empty “big box” store: Toys “R” Us is planning to wind down operations and close its remaining 735 stores across the U.S., according to documents filed today the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.